🎙️ Space Race Acquisition
Tech Brew Ride Home

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#podcommons #podcasts #podcastrecc #space

🎙️ Iranian ports blockade, Peru election and COVID vaccine claims by Fact and Spin

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#podcommons #podcasts #news #ReclaimOurNewsfeeds # ReclaimNews

The image shows a podcast entry on the PodCommons platform, featuring an episode titled "Trump’s Broken Promises" from the series Letters From An American. Posted by user wesfrye, the content is dated April 12, 2026, and carries a "Recommended" tag. The episode description links a 3.3% inflation rate to a conflict with Iran, noting it as the fastest rate of increase. The interface includes standard social features like a play button, share options, and a heart icon with a single like.

Outstanding news summary again from HCR: I am particularly encouraged by the election results in Hungary…

🎙️ Trump's Broken Promises
Letters from an American

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#podcommons #podcasts #PodcastRecc #ReclaimOurNewsFeeds

🎙️ Trump’s Broken Promises
Letters from an American

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#podcommons #podcasts

An illustration of a slice of peach cobbler topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, set against a textured reddish-brown background with "PEACH COBBLER" in large, distressed white text. Below, the text "Explore Southern Tables: Peach Cobbler" precedes a note celebrating National Peach Cobbler Day and a fun fact about the history of peaches in China and Georgia.

Happy National Peach Cobbler Day!
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Don't forget to celebrate.

Game Design 101 by Add-A-Tudez Entertainment Company Add-A-Tudez Entertainment Company is a PlayStation and Xbox certified game development team out of Montana, and this talk is on all the basics that go into designing a video game. For Grades 4 & Up Friday, April 17, 2026 1:00 pm ET soonsoreaty 30 minutes & —

I just registered for Friday’s free Zoom webinar “Game Design 101” via the CILC:

www.cilc.org/fieldedlive

(Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1pm ET)

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #GameDesign #design #stem

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS CALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BY SHELLY FRYER BUILDING UP IN LOVE KRISK KARINK These are links to Kids' Sunday School lessons I'm teaching or have taught at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. APRIL 12, 2026 - ALL ARE WELCOME HERE All Are Welcome Here reAll Are W Books withobs. WITH Blue Romans 15:7 "Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God." 1 Google Slides classroom shellytryer.com/sunday-school

Shelly's children's Sunday School lesson today: "All Are Welcome Here!"

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"So reach out and welcome one another to God's glory. Jesus did it; now you do it!…"
‭‭Romans‬ ‭15‬:‭7‬-‭13‬ ‭MSG‬‬
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Screenshot of a Joyce Vance Substack post about the Department of Justice investigation of Cassidy Hutchinson

The weaponization of the United States Department of Justice is terrible and prima facie unethical.

My latest “note” and article share for #ResistAndHeal:

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A group of military trainees in camouflage uniforms and patrol caps march in formation on a paved outdoor walkway, passing a large building with extensive windows and an adjacent athletic court. C3C Wesley Fryer (on the left) marches the CS-05 "Wolfpack" Class of 1993 during Recognition Weekend training.

New post on our family learning blog: Camp USAFA Memories

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#USAFA #AFA #AirForceAcademy #memories

A composite image featuring three NASA photos labeled NASA Kennedy, NASA Johnson, and NASA HQ. The photos show a rocket launchpad silhouette against a large orange sun, a silhouette of a person looking at Earth from a spacecraft window, and two smiling astronauts in orange flight suits. A yellow URL at the bottom reads: lessons.wesfryer.com/wonder-links/image-slideshows.

It's a beautiful morning.

I updated my "Image Slideshows" webpage with links to Artemis 2 Flickr albums from NASA NASA's Kennedy Space Center, NASA's Johnson Space Center, and NASA HQ:
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#NASA #Artemis #Artemis2

A four-panel somber comic strip: the first panel shows a political figure at a podium inciting a crowd; the second depicts soldiers standing before a cross entwined with a sword; the third shows a community divided by a literal crack in the earth; the final panel portrays a solitary, grieving man sitting amidst urban ruins.

New post on Patreon:

Unmasking Un-Christian Religious Nationalism

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#ConCW #genocide #ChristianNationalism #Christian #Christianity #heresy #crusades #crusader #history

A book with the American flag on top intended to be the Bible, the cover for the book “The Bible According to Christian Nationalists: Exploiting Scripture for Political Power by Brian Kaylor”

#book2read: The Bible According to Christian Nationalists: Exploiting Scripture for Political Power by Brian Kaylor

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#ConCW #genocide #ChristianNationalism #Christian #Christianity #heresy #crusades #crusader #history

Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War The U.S. has waged war on Iran for more than a month now. On this week’s On the Media, what Defense Secretary Hegseth’s monthly Pentagon prayer meetings reveal about his war strategy. Plus, hear how…

[PODCAST] Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War by #OnTheMedia

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#ConCW #genocide #ChristianNationalism #Christian #Christianity

A comic-style infographic titled "Bot Manipulation Online," detailing a 7-step process showing how manufactured messages are amplified by bots and algorithms to spread to real users, concluding that corrections often arrive too late.

Check out my new article, "Spot the Bot: Notes and Takeaways"
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Cross-posted from my blog:
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#security #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #disinfo #misinfo #badactor #ConCW

Podcast thumbnail for EdTechSR Episode 372: "AI's Psychological Dangers," featuring Inside Out characters in a futuristic control room reacting to AI technology, news feeds, and digital security icons.

The latest EdTech Situation Room podcast is online: AI's Psychological Dangers (Episode 372)
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#AI #edtechSR #edtech #security #chatbot

Gemini said A whiteboard sketchnote infographic titled "Conspiracies and Crazy People" by Dr. Fryer, dated 4-9-2026, centers on a core belief that "BELIEFS should not HURT OTHERS.....". Arrows connect this central idea to various related topics presented in framed sections: "Magical Thinking" (mentioning crystals, third eye, mirror), "Defining 'Crazy'" (paranoia, reject evidence), "Alien Encounters" (faces, "Aliens Abducted Me"), a box for "Sonic Movie & Beliefs," a detailed visualization of a "Flat Earth" dome (labeled with Ice Wall, Projection Map, Dome), "The Rabbit Hole Effect" (person by vortex), and "Targeted Individuals" (stick figure with arrows, "be understanding & empathetic"). Various hand-drawn figures, symbols, and star motifs fill the spaces on the whiteboard, which has a multi-colored zig-zag border. The lower corners contain #create2learn and by wesfryer.com.

Day 2 update:

For our 3rd video, I (again) created an in-class sketchnote with students, drawing on our whiteboard, and then used Gemini AI to create a more detailed and well-designed InfoGraphic. Shared on Flickr:
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Archived Gemini:
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Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.

Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites: As the US and Israel’s war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
(ArsTechnica, 8 April 2026)
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#commprep #prepper #IranWar

An educational infographic titled "Introducing SIFT" illustrates Mike Caulfield’s framework for digital literacy: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims. Through cartoon illustrations, it emphasizes "lateral reading"—the practice of opening new tabs to verify a site's credibility—and uses a puppet metaphor to show how these skills prevent disinformation from "pulling your strings." Additional notes highlight the importance of media literacy for news and voting, suggesting Wikipedia as a research starting point.

Check out my new post, “Sketchnote to AI InfoGraphic”
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Also on my “Media Literacy with Wes” Substack:
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#create2learn #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #AI #InfoGraphic #Claude #Gemini

Russia denies Ukrainian intelligence assessment that its hackers have teamed up with Iran's for cyberattacks Russian ​Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ‌Zakharova said on Wednesday that Ukrainian intelligence assessments ​that Russian and ​Iranian hackers have joined forces, reported ⁠on Tuesday by ​Reuters, are false.

Russia denies Ukrainian intelligence assessment that its hackers have teamed up with Iran's for cyberattacks reut.rs/4cbx8yT

Wes Fryer and Anubis from Tutankhamun's Tomb

Reminds me of Anubis! www.flickr.com/photos/wfrye...

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Minecraft Mars "Coding Mars" Project

(2/2) My Minecraft Mars" coding unit: (AKA "Coding Mars")
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A screenshot of a webpage titled "MUSICAL PLAYLISTS" featuring three Minecraft-themed Spotify playlists. The page includes a URL for educational resources and links to playlists: "Minecraft: Soothing Synths (Monolism Remix)," "minecraft ambience / peaceful music," and "Minecraft Calm Music," showing tracklists with artists like C418.

(1/2) I updated my Minecraft Education resource page with 3 Spotify Minecraft LoFi playlists:
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Also check out these Minecraft Education resource pages:

My MinecraftEDU tutorial videos:
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#stem #coding #minecraft #MinecraftEDU

#MediaEdClub Memes, Warfare, and Propaganda (May 4th) mediaeducationlab.com/events/memes... cc #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #ConCW

USA-Iran may have the cease fire but the information shaping, operations (including cyber) is likely going to continue. No cease-fire in information warfare. Expect this to continue. Difficult where this lands within next weeks.

@jennschiffer.com Hi Jenn. I've been slowly exploring some of the Indie Web sites listed in the Internet Phone Book and I spent some time at your website yesterday. It was fun! Thanks for having a place that is so inviting. dogtraxwrites.com/internetphon...

What a lovely log post, Kevin. Thanks so much for sharing this.

A cartoon illustration titled "MEMES, WARFARE, AND PROPAGANDA" showing four diverse people—a woman in a hijab, a man, a young boy, and a blonde woman—using magnifying glasses to inspect a cracked smartphone screen. The screen displays a Pepe the Frog meme, a laughing emoji, a launching missile, an image of an arrest, and a government-style seal.

Please join me on Monday, May 4th for the next free webinar meetup of the MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab: "Memes, Warfare, and Propaganda"

Learn more and register on:
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#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #LikeWar #warfare #propaganda #memes #MemeCulture

REJECT GENOCIDE AND WAR CRIMES

New post on #ResistAndHeal: Reject Genocide and War Crimes

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Resist and Heal (@resistandheal) “Doxxing” is now a term of cultural literacy that every citizen should (unfortunately) know and understand. This should not normalize or legitimize this harmful and malicious abuse of digital power, b...

(2/2) …This should not normalize or legitimize this harmful and malicious abuse of digital power, but it should help us highlight the unacceptable cruelty of leaders like Elon Musk.

More on #ResistAndHeal:

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#ethics #HealOurCulture

Resist and Heal (@resistandheal) “Doxxing” is now a term of cultural literacy that every citizen should (unfortunately) know and understand. This should not normalize or legitimize this harmful and malicious abuse of digital power, b...

(1/2) “Doxxing” is now a term of cultural literacy that every citizen should (unfortunately) know and understand...

More on #ResistAndHeal:

substack.com/@resistandhe...

#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy